Running mission-critical workloads require both performance and reliability. To improve customers’ Azure Virtual Private Network (VPN) experience, Microsoft is introducing a new generation of VPN gateways with better performance, a better service level agreement (SLA) and at the same price as its older gateways, writes Yousef Khalidi, Azure Networking corporate vice president.

“Many customers with network intensive workloads in Azure Virtual Networks (VNets) are driving the need for increased cross-premises and cross-region VPN performance,” Kahlidi says. “To accommodate even more demanding workloads, we re-engineered our VPN Gateway service to provide six times more performance coupled with better reliability and backed by an even stricter SLA.”